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Volume 54, Number 21

Medicine or murder

Title IX controversy

Got Beads?

Has RU-486 advanced safer abortion or aided in dangerous convenience?

Is Palomar's Atheletics Department really compliant?

San Marcos "Bead Man" shows off.

Opinion, page 4

Sports, page 8

ASG candidates ready for election The race for president Stephen Keller The Telescope

The two Associated Student Government presidential candidates are Sean Weimer and Zeb Navarro.

Weimer currently serves on ASG as vice president of state affairs, while Navarro is involved at Palomar as assistant program director of KKSM, the school's radio station. The most controversial issue in this year's issue is the subject of benefits for ASG members.

ASG members, though they have to buy a parking permit, can use faculty parking spaces.

Starting next semester, they will also be eligible for a $500 scholarship.

Weimer defended these perks, saying that they act as a means of convincing people to join ASG. He noted that very few people are running this semester, and that such benefits offered incentive to run for ASG. Beyond that, they act as a reward for ASG members who must carry a full load of classes. and maintain a 2.5 GPA in addition to their ASG duties, Weimer said.

Navarro disagreed. "If you're going to run for ASG, you should be doing it to represent the students, not for faculty parking or a $500 scholarship," he said.

Navarro also said that if elected, he would not make use of the scholarship or faculty parking.

A big issue for both candidates is the amount of communication between students and ASG. Navarro said that, if elected, he would listen to students and attempt to address their concerns at governing board meetings as well as other shared governance meetings throughout the campus.

Navarro added that ASG currently spends too much time and money on "idiotic talent shows

"If you're going to run for ASG, you should be doing it to represent the students, not for faculty parking or a

$500 scholarship."

-Zeb Navarro Candidate for president

"Without students, there is no student governmen.t " -Sean Weimer Candidate for president

and cheap fluff entertainment," and not enough time addressing the needs of students.

Weimer said that he too felt students need to play a bigger role in ASG. "Without students, there is no student government," Weimer said.

He said that he would like to have all of the ASG members available at the same time once a week to take input from students. ''I'm not going to promise people miracles, but I will listen to them," Weimer said.

However, Weimer said that it was important to spend time on events for students. While he said that many people feel Palomar is just a commuter college, he added that ASG should make the time spent on campus as enjoyable as possible.

Parking was another issue that both candidates have strong views on.

'The students of Palomar are being robbed blind by our current administration," Navarro said. He said he wants to see a price reduction in parking for students.

He suggested having faculty pay for parking permits as one possible solution to alleviate the burden shouldered by students.

Weimer said that at $27.50 a semester, he felt that parking is as good as it is going to get. "$27.50 is high, but it's better than $37.50 or $47.50," he said.

Parking is a complex issue that has a lot of costs involved. For instance, paperwork alone costs $26,000 a year, Weimer said.

Weimer said that we currently have a good parking redevelopment plan in place and that to change it at this point would cost extra money.

Another matter that Weimer is looking into is the price of textbooks. He also wants to see about having the state eliminate the sales tax on textbooks.

These issues, along with increases in the PELL Grant and federal child-care funding, were things that Weimer lobbied for during an ASG trip to Washington D.C. earlier this year.

One other issue that Navarro is pushing is to have the North County Transit District create a committee for addressing student concerns, with student members.

He is particularly concerned with the possibility of Palomar losing one of its major bus routes.

While ASG currently has an NCTD committee devoted to this subject, Navarro felt that anything short of a committee within NCTD would not be totally effective. ASG elections are April 24 and 25 from 8a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Student Union.

Students run for vice president Stephen Keller The Telescope

Only two candidates are running for vice presidential positions on Associated Student Government this semester, and both are running for the same one: vice president of state affairs.

The two candidates are Rebecca Faubus and Ben Allen. Faubus currently serves on ASG as vice president of inter-club council, and Allen is a music director for KKSM, the school's radio station.

As in the presidential race, one of the biggest issues

between the two candidates is parking at school.

Citing increasingly high prices, Allen has called for major changes to the parking structure, suggesting that we might look into hiring an outside company to do maintenance.

Faubus said that she simply does not believe much can be done with the parking situation, as it is largely ¡out of the control ofASG. She said she did want to see about increasing the amount of money spent on parking through the school's . general budget, rather than forcing stu-

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dents to pay the bulk of it.

Right now, 2 percent of the general budget goes to parking, while it is as high as 15 percent at other schools, Faubus said.

Another matter of concern is the new hours for the cafeteria, which will no longer be opened on Fridays.

Allen, who works in the cafeteria, said that while he didn't like it having to be closed, it was better than allowing an outside company to take it over.

He said that this is a possibility

see Race, page 3

Focus, page 5

Hangin' with 'subUrbia'

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"subUddia" cast members Peter Beneli Mel Tori Johnson relax to some tunes in front of 7-11. "subUrtlia".,.. Aprl26, 27, 28 at 8 p.m. Mel April 29 at 2 p.m. in the Brubeck Theatre.

Cafeteria closed Fridays Kelli Davis The Telescope

The cafeteria will no longer be open on Fridays and has shortened business hours for the rest of the week: Cafe' Franco, the Deli, and the main cafeteria will not be open on fridays. The changes, made effective early this April, are because of lack of business.

Palomar's Food Service Manager Pat Barrett made the decision several weeks ago on the grounds that the student flow on Fridays was just not enough to justify opening the businesses. "The student flow has dropped by over half' Barrett said, "we've been running at a deficit since right after Spring Break."

The Palomar Cafeteria pays its own utilities and expenses, as well as labor costs, from food sales. "We're not district supported." Barrett said, "It was a juggling act."

Some student workers at the cafeteria are not pleased with the idea, citing loss of hours and wages. Mirva Lempiainen, a student at Palomar and employee at the cafeteria, claims that she lost eight hours of work when the cafeteria started closing on Fridays, but was able to

make them up by working Tuesdays and Thursdays, "So now I am working four mornings a week rather then three."

Other workers' schedules are not so forgiving. "Some people couldn't make [the hours] up because they have . class," Lempiainen said.

The changes to the school's cafeteria hours are not expected to be permanent, according to Barrett, who said she disliked making the decision, "It was hard, and as soon as we see an increase, I' 11 open the doors again."

Whether the decision was hard or not is not the issue, said vice president of inter-club council Rebecca Faubus.

Faubus claims that Barrett "Should have gone through the Shared Governance Procedure," a model for making changes here at Palomar. "It's a decision that directly affects the students," Faubus said.

Barrett claims that "[They've] never had to go to the [government] board meetings. The decision was made independently by the cafeteria staff."

Students at Palomar are also on the receiving end of the changes' repercussions. "I don't like it," Stephanie Schultz said.

Another student, Andrea Magallanese, asks "What are we supposed to eat?"

The Snack Shack and Pavilion Cafe' will be open on Fridays from 7 a.m. to 2:30p.m. and Barrett said they will be stocked with food and

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Monday, April 23, 2001

Campus Beat WalkAmerica has annual fundraiser

Forums held for presidential spot

The annual March of Dimes WalkAmerica, which supports research to save babies born prematurely or with birth defects, will be held Sunday, April29.

Those who participate in the walk will begin with a stroll through Legoland, then continue with a four- or eight-mile walk through Carlsbad.

People can walk as individuals or as part of a team.

WalkAmerica participants raise money for the foundation by asking friends, family, and community members to sponsor them by donating money.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the March of Dimes in 1938. Originally it was designed to find a cure for infant paralysis. In the 1970s, the foundation's emphasis was changed to improving the health of babies and preventing birth defects.

For more information on the March of Dimes, visit the Web site at www.modimes.org.

If you are interested in helping to organize a Palomar team, contact Jo Anne Giese at (760) 744-1150 ext. 2109 for more details.

The fmalists for the superintendent/president position at Palomar will be on campus Monday, April 23 through Wednesday, April 25 for students, faculty and community members to meet.

Last week six candidates were interviewed by the presidential search committee. Out of the six, up to three of these were selected to attend an open forum which starts at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the Howard Bruebeck Theatre.

One hour-long forum per day will be held for each presidential candidate where he/she will have the opportunity to present information about themselves and answer questions from the audience.

All finalists hold doctorate degrees, but names will not be announced until the forum dates.

"It's a very strong pool," said interim president/superintendent Jack Randall. "I think they will select an excellent president."

For more information about the forum contact Barbara Baldridge, executive assistant, Governing Board of Palomar Community College District at (760) 744-1150 ext. 2.104.

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College holds May bl_ood drive Palomar College will hold a blood drive Tuesday, May 1 and Wednesday, May 2 and is urging all students, faculty and staff to donate blood.

The drive, which goes from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., is being held by the college's Health Services Department and the student honor society Phi Theta Kappa.

People wanting to donate should eat before donating and bring picture identification.

Those who have donated blood within the last 56 days are eligible to participate.

The drive will be held in the Student Union, and all who donate will get a limited-edition T-shirt. People should schedule an appointment to donate.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact Health Services at (760) 744-1150 ext. 2380.

Jo Appleton

Fair calls for contest entries The Del Mar Fair will be holding competitions for students interested in photojournalism, art and design this summer from June 15 through July 4.

The contests are open to a wide range of talents, and not just limited to students. Requirements for entries vary, so it's recommended that interested people pick up a handbook from the entry office located on the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

All departments, except most one-day contests, require submissions of the entry form and fees to the entry office prior to the fair.

Check department information for registration deadlines.

Contestants are encouraged to mail in the entry forms and fees, however, hand-delivered forms will be accepted in the entry office.

For more information regarding all other competition entries, contact the 24-hour fair information line at (858) 793-5555.

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·Two students chosen for 2001 All-AcademiC Team Jo Appleton • The Telescope

Academic achievement, leadership skills and community service have paid off for two Palomar College students who have been named to the Phi Theta Kappa 2001 AllAcademic Team to represent the state of California.

Qun Xu, 19, (pronounced chen su) of San Marcos and Amy Brooker, 20, of Escondido were honored at a luncheon and awards ceremony in Sacramento on April 19 during a legislative session of the California State Assembly.

'They're not just outstanding students at Palomar, but they are outstanding members of the community as well. They're just great kids," said Student Affairs Director Bruce Bishop.

Xu, a native of China, has been in the United States almost five years, and said she enjoys the smaller class size at Palomar compared with the class size at schools in China. She also found the faculty at Palomar "friendly and willing to help."

Among other community service work, Xu volunteers at the Abused Children Shelter and tutors at the Boys and Girls Club. She said of her award, ''To me I don' t think it's the award that's the most important, it's that I can express my ability to help others to attain their goals."

Xu said although she's been accepted to UC San Diego, she hopes to be accepted at UC Photo courtesy Melinda Marchuk I Palomar College Public Information Berkeley where she will study Palomar students Qun Xu (left), and Amy Brooker are newly-selected finance and mathematics.

Brooker works at the Golden members of the Phi Theta Kappa 2001 All-Academic Team in Door, a 375 acre relaxation California. They were awarded scholarships at a ceremony April 19. resort in San Marcos. She is also active as a tutor for kids in the community and does volunteer work at My Sister's were good for Palomar, considering the odds. Out of Closet, a used clothing store located in San Diego. the 107 community colleges in California, each had Brooker, who graduated from Escondido High the right to nominate two students from each camSchool and is majoring in liberal arts and sciences at pus, that could have been up to four students, Palomar, said she fmds the teachers here friendly depending on how many campuses they have. and accessible. 'They encourage me to be the best I Because Palomar has only one campus, it could can," she said. Brooker plans to transfer to Florida only nominate two, and both nominees were Atlantic University and pursue a career which selected for the awards. Any two students could involves helping people, she said. have been selected from all the nominees. ''There's Along with other community college members a lot of hurdles to jump through to get where they are," Lunde said. from all over the state, Xu and Brooker received plaques, monetary rewards and scholarships to the The luncheon and award ceremony was sponCalifornia State University of their choice. They sored by the Community College League of also got introduced on the floor of the senate and California, in conjunction with the California Community College Foundation. . received resolutions from their local representatives.

Administrative Secretary of Student Affairs Phi Theta Kappa is an international honor society.

The local chapter at Palomar assists other students, Marilyn Lunde escorted the students to the day-long luncheon in Sacramento last Thurdsay. She said that performs community service and staffs the Health the nominations were quite an accomplishment, and Information Awareness Center.

Speak Out! What would you like to • see 1n a new student government president?

Justin Gerbracht Fine Arts

"They should know something about the school, and have been here for awhile."

Sandra Buckland Social Work

"They should stick up for students and be friendly."

Ryan Dewolf Computer Science

Vanessa Ray Undecided

"I would like to see them organize more events and activities."

"They should be somebody who cares about students getting along, help us be a family."

Morgan Cook Undecided

"I would like to see benevolence and selfless devotion to all Palomar students."

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microwaves. Little Caesar's is open 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Fridays.

For some students, though, that's not enough, "It's annoying," said Palomar student Rebecca Hamilton, who often times doesn't have the money for Little Caesar's.

Other students are more sympathetic to the closing of the

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if the cafeteria begins losing money and that shutting down every Friday is simply a costcutting measure.

Faubus said she hopes to get at least the deli and the coffee stand open on Fridays, so that students have some alternatives to pizza.

As a reason to vote for her, Faubus said she has experience in dealing with politicians, after having made some good contacts during ASG 's trip to Washington D.C. earlier this year.

She said she has a good rapport with the offices of several congressmen and senators. She vowed to make them listen to students.

For his part, Allen said he does not think ASG does anything that really helps students.

While he said he is not completely familiar with the governance process at Palomar, he will devote himself to learning what he can do to make changes, and will take appropriate action.

Monday, April 23,

President

Vice President

Zeb Navarro

Sean Weimer

Ben Allen

Rebecca Faubus

Palomar student since 1999.

Broadcasting major and assistant program director at KKSM. Ran for Oceanside City Council last year and is the director of the Campfire Boys and Girls Club of San Diego County.

Full time second semester Palomar student. Business major, currently serving as ASG vice president of state affairs and was recently appointed vice president of Phi Theta Kappa.

Second year Palomar student.

Currently a music director at KKSM. Also an employee at the cafeteria on campus.

Attended Palomar in 1991, obtained AA degree in general education. Returned in 1999 to major in history. Plans to return to Palomar to teach after receiving her masters from CSUSM. Currently serving as ASG vice president for inter-club council.

cafeteria. Bryan Rough agrees that "There's nobody here on Fridays," though some of his friends who worked in the cafeteria on Fridays are complaining of a loss of hours.

Barrett would like to remind the students that it is very costly to run the cafeteria. Labor costs include somewhere around 150 labor hours at an average of $6.75 an hour for student workers. "That's not including utilities, expenses, and contract staff," Barrett said.

She also said "nothing is concrete" and "students need to help out" by accepting the new hours.

FOOD AVAILABILITY AT PALOMAR Cafeteria: Monday-Thursday: 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. Friday: CLOSED The Deli (next to Cafe Franco): Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Friday: CLOSED Cafe Franco: Monday-Thursday: 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. Friday: CLOSED Pavilion Cafe (behind the Boehm Gallery): Monday-Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Friday: 7 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Snack Shack: Monday-Thursday: 7:30a.m.- 8:30p.m. Friday: 7 a.m.-2:30p.m.

Saturday: 7:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

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Monday, April 23, 2001

Opinion RU -486: Should it be legal?

• PRO It's an advancement in women's medicine

• CON Murder ·should not be the mainstream

Brett A. Frost

Tom Chambers

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Most people in America, if they are familiar at all with the drug RU-486, know it as "the abortion pill," or "the morning after pill." With the application of that moniker, most Americans are instantly either predisposed in favor of it or are prejudiced . against it. No further information needed.

Our nation is so polarized over the political, legal, and moral status of abortion that an objective evaluation of this drug seems hardly possible. In fact it seems almost futile.

I woke up this morning and went to the local supermarket and there on my street comer where a bunch of men with picket signs depicting pictures of dead fetuses.

These pictures would be very hard to stomach if I believed that it was a human life.

I'm sorry, I fail to recognize an embryo as anything more than an egg in a frying pan.

If this is hard to stomach, well, so is a 14year-old-girl dead in an alley from a back alley abortion. Why is it that it's always the men who are so overzealous about these things? Is it because they feel guilty for things they have done in their past? A pittance to society if you may. This might seem off-focus from the RU-486 pill, but it's not. It all ties in together. The bottom line is for the government to stay out of women's uteruses. With George W. Bush in office, it is going to be a problem.

We separated the church from the state a long time ago and I think that should apply to everything.

The fact is the RU-486 pill is one of the greatest advancements in female medicine for a long time. RU-486 (or mifepristine) is a steroid hormone with a similar structure to the natural hormone progesterone.

It became available in America in September 2000. Basically what the pill does is to force the body to induce a miscarriage. I feel this is very beneficial for women because of all of the fanatics that seem to swarm abortion clinics these days.

Pregnancy termination with RU 486 is non-surgical, it requires no anesthesia and prevents perforation, damage to the cervix or infection from instruments. Besides that, the pill seems to have very promising properties that help prevent breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and meningioma.

The fact still remains that we are going to see a lot 0f problems with this pill due to the right-wing Christian coalition. I myself am ecstatic that this pill is available to women in the United States. It is safe, painless, and effective.

There is no right to life in any society on Earth today. We raise farm animals for slaughter; destroy forests; pollute rivers and lakes until no fish can live there; kill deer and elk for sport; club pups to death; and render some other species extinct on a daily basis.

This might seem crass, but, the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Do we really want to subject someone else to it?

"Choice" has taken on a whole new meaning since the Food and Drug Administration approved limited use of the abortion drug RU-486. Pro-choice groups and feminists hail it as a breakthrough in women's rights. All this may be moot since President Bush said his people would review the decision. Hopefully they'll reverse the approval of this practice.

It's more than ironic that RU-486 is made by the same company that gave lethal gas to the Nazis, and that the drug is set to be manufactured in human rights-less China.

To some, that may not be a big deal, but it shows the extreme to which our society ha$ fallen when it comes to life.

The proponents of RU-486 see it as a breakthrough because it is "easier" than a surgical abortion. While that's not true, it certainly is easier to forget about what happens during an abortion.

Instead of going through a surgical procedure, women seeking abortions take a couple of pills. The experience seems to be more of an unpleasant medical condition happening to the woman and not a procedure where she asks a doctor to rip a baby out of her body.

Using RU-486 is not an easy experience: passing bloodclots, reproductive tissue, large amounts of blood and cramping for up to 49 days. Five percent of the women who use it still need a suction abortion because of excessive bleeding, an incomplete abortion or an ongoing pregnancy.

The way it works is, a doctor gives the woman a mifopristone pill. If after two days the abortion hasn't taken place, the doctor gives her a couple rnisoprostol tablets to either swallow or insert into her vagina.

Somewhere between 11 and 17 days later, the abortion takes place in the privacy of her home, including the bloody sights of life falling into the toilet.

That's a lot of work, but after all, we're talking about getting rid of another human being.

And that's where they problem lies.

Approval of, and the possible mainstream use of, this drug is proof that Americans no longer value life. And when life isn't valued, where do the rest of our rights go?

How sick does a society have to be to condone people who, instead of valuing a life, take a pill and watch that life go down the drain? Of course, not everyone in this world is that repulsive.

Recent polls show that most Americans favor limiting abortions, or even banning them in some cases. But the feminists and their puppets in the Democratic Party keep pushing for more abortion rights.

Scientists and doctors stopped arguing about when life begins long ago. Without a doubt, life begins at conception - that's why you won't hear Patricia Ireland saying it's not a life.

Whoever Bush appoints to the FDA should make blocking RU-486 their first priority, and put an end to the campaign to make murder mainstream.

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Julie Devaney The Telescope

He could be called "The Bead Man" of San Marcos.

Les Andrade, 48, can be found most days in his bead store, The Barefoot Trader.

It is a small corner store, tucked in amidst the new little shops of Restaurant Row in San Marcos.

In his store, Andrade offers thousands of different colored beads and findings. He also sells all the supplies needed to make necklaces, earrings, anklets, bracelets, and anything else you might think of. Beading has become more and more popular in the last 20 years.

Andrade said he started out small and is now doing very well. He has been in Restaurant Row now for seven years.

Andrade is not merely cashing in on the popularity of beading, he has had a love of the craft for over 34 years. Andrade has been interested in it since the '60s.

"I grew up in the '60s.

Everybody beaded. It was fun.

You'd make stuff and sell it," Andrade said.

"I grew up in a college town: Providence, Rhode Island, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. A lot of art going on in the community," Andrade said.

Andrade said it was in the '80s when the Seattle grunge and Pearl Jam came out, that people started wearing a lot of back and white and not a whole lot of jewelry. He said it was not a very feminine look.

"The novelty of the black and

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white wore off, and women said, 'I want to look like a woman again,"' Andrade said.

Also, a lot more fashion designers started using beads again.

Fiber art and wearable art became popular, Andrade said.

"Jewelry tends to be very cyclical and it goes up and down and fluxes," Andrade said. The popular things now are those big chunky necklaces.

I call them . 'Wilma Flintstone' necklaces with those big ol' beads," Andrade said.

A lot of well-known rockand-rollers, surfers, skateboarder dudes, and BMX bike riders have been wearing jewelry for a while now, Andrade said.

He describes it as "that retrokinda-hippie thing with the hemp necklaces." He also said that kids seem to want to idolize these guys and wear what they are wearing.

Beading is for all ages.

"Eight to 80, blind, crippled, or crazy - That's what I say," Andrade said.

He said he has the women that go for the classy Austrian crystal and then the ones that go for the funky old bone and shell necklaces, as well as the preteens looking for a shell choker.

"I have ladies that won't go into that crystal room. It's too sparkly. They are looking for old and chipped. 'Have you got anything with more chips it?' they will say," Andrade said.

Andrade said from time to

time, he has Palomar teachers come in for supplies.

He charges around 20 dollars for his Saturday morning classes. In the class, they will make a bracelet and a pair of earrings.

"Once we teach the basics, people are less afraid of how to start doing a project and then they can move on to more advanced techniques," Andrade said. "A nice thing about this jewelry stuff, especially beading, is that none of it is hard at all.

There are a few things you have to do right and you have to do it right every time, but it's really not hard.

"You show someone how to make a pair of earrings, and they go, 'You're kidding me, that's it? I could have been doing this since I was a little girl if I would have known it was that easy,"' Andrade said.

"Out of the classes, if .J have five ladies in a class, one lady will become an addict, one lady will never pick up a bead for the rest of her life, and the other three will maybe make something here and there," Andrade said. But, out of the class, he said he always seems to pick up a new customer who just gets addicted.

"They will go broke for about a month or so, and then all of a sudden they will say, 'I gotta stop coming in here. I'm just spending all my money.' But they'll fall in love and when you have nothing to start with, you need a lot of little piddley

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things," Andrade said. But it all adds up.

There are a lot of women who do not work and their kids are in school. They tell their husbands they are bored and. their husbands tell them to go get a hobby. "Those are the women I love to have," Andrade said.

He said they make their jewels, and they love it. They have fun. They are doing something they like. It doesn't matter whether they make any money at it or not.

"Beaders never seem to make any money cause they just go buy more beads," Andrade said.

He said beading feeds the

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Monday, April. 23, 2001

Green. gr~sses out with new movie James Rolfsen The Telescope

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Sometimes. in the course of movie-making history, there is a inovie that delights and awes you. That makes you want to jump up and scream for joy.

"Freddy Got Fingered," the new movie co-written and directed by Tom Green, is not one of them.

The only screaming you'll do is while your running from the theater.

Tom Green takes the obscene and disgusting and hooks up an amplifier.

Now, I'm not saying it's a bad movie. I'm saying that it is a horrible movie.

The whole movie is just one big episode of "The Tom Green Show."

Green does everything, from putting a · gun to his head in downtown Hollywood, to severing the umbilical cord from a newborn baby with his teeth.

Green plays Gordon Brody, a 28 year-old animator who lives with his parents and is looking for his big break into the animation business.

Rip Torn plays Gordon's father Jim Brody, whq wants Gordon to get a job and get out of his house.

Of course there ·a few funny parts but from the rivalry between father and son.

Marisa Coughlan plays Betty, a handicapyed girl with dreams of strappmg rockets on her wheelchair.

She immediately falls for Gordon, and brings with her more sick and disgusting antics.

The other characters in the movie are just bit parts (including Freddy (Eddie Kaye Thomas who has about 3 scenes.)

Cameos include Shaquille O'Neal and Green's recently married wife Drew Barrymore.

This movie has no plot, no character development, and basically no point.

It is basically about Tom Green going out and doing disgusting things and making a complete fool out of himself.

You can only imagine Tom Green sitting in his little writing studio, saying: "What can we d9 that will offend people to no limit."

By making this movie, he ensures that at least 15 different

animal and human rights groups will protest.

And therein lies the reason for the movie.

This movie was basically made for its shock value. To see how many people will get up and say: "This is the worst movie, I have ever seen!"

By doing this, Green has shown originality in his scenes ..

Jhis movie is basically like a grisly carwreck: you l,<now that what you'll see will shock you, but everyone will still stop and watch.

So by all means, go and see this movie. Just don't say I didn't warn you.

'Freddy Got Fingered'

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(out of four stars)

Starring Tom Green, Rip 'Ibm, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas Rated 'R' for language and sexual humor For local moVIe times go to The Telescope Online: www.palomar.edu/telescope

Courtesy 20th Century Fox Gordon Brody <Tom Green) admires his backward self in the new release "Freddy Got Fingered.''

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Monday, April 23, 2001

Evaluations improve teaching Danielle Boldt The Telescope

Ever wonder what those teacher evaluation forms are for, and what the results actually pose?

"The idea for the evaluation is for improvement, not to isolate the good teachers from the bad," said Colene Hicken from the tenure and evaluation office.

Each year Hicken, a senior office specialist, said she distributes an average of 15,000 teacher evaluation forms throughout Palomar College.

Students are asked to rate their instructor's performance using a Scantron test format.

The forms consist of about 1620 statements that are to be rated based on a scale from strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree, not applicable, and about four essay style questions on the opposite side.

Examples of statements include: Treats all students with respect. Challenges and encourages the student to think independently. Uses a variety of teaching methods that take into account the different learning styles of students.

Is easy to approach, patient, and willing to help.

On the back, the questions that carry "a large weight," said tenure and evaluation review coordinator and math professor Anne Voth, include questions like: What teaching methods does your instructor use that help you learn the material? And how might this instructor improve the class?

It is not mandatory for a student to participate, but it is strongly encouraged by administrators .

For the most part, the results of these forms are seriously considered, as the students' evaluations generally coincide with the rest of the review.

The entire review is a process that is led by a group of peer administrators once every first, second, and fourth year for instructors before tenure and once every three years after an instructor has been tenured.

Instructors who are deemed i)robationary faculty (those who have not reached their four-year tenure mark) undergo the full evaluation, consisting of: a student evaluation, a peer observation in the classroom, and a twocomponent report that lists the instructor's strengths and suggestions for ways to improve. Tenure faculty only receive the peer and student evaluation.

The evaluation forms are a small part of evaluations, however, they play a vital role in revealing a teacher's performance.

Patricia Dixon, instructor for American Indian studies and U.S . history, feels that every instructor should take the evaluation seriously.

Despite her seniority as a teacher, though, Dixon said that she still experiences a little anxiety during the evaluation.

It is impos sible to satisfy every student, so even if a teacher is experienced there will always be some low scores on the evaluation forms.

"Regardless of the butterflies, the teacher-evaluation process is necessary, and serves as an opportunity to improve and a tool so that ineffective teachers do not stay," Dixon said.

In Dixon's early experience as a teacher, she never thought that she should show videos in the classroom.

"I was afraid that I would work too hard for too little in return."

Dixon feared that student5s would not learn much from viewing films. Thus, her curriculum was based purely on lecture.

When Dixon received the results of her evaluation, she learned that her teaching plan was unbalanced. Students commented that not only was Dixon too rigid, but her teaching format was boring.

Dixon decided to loosen up and broke up her lecture format by using videos and incorporating group discussion as well as participation.

Gradually, Dixon said students began to improve, and the average two to three A's per class multiplied by four or five times.

As important as the entire evaluation is, Voth said, "It's not 100 percent, but the evaluation serves as a guide to give an accurate idea of the teacher's performance."

Voth explained that for the most effective evaluations, the most extreme student ratings are always thrown out.

For example, forms that have all poor ratings on the front and all excellent ratings on the back will not be figured into the equation .

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Palomar gets discount on electricity Pamela Castillo Contributing Writer

While the rest of San Diego is struggling with electricity bills, Palomar College is keeping its electricity bills under control.

Palomar is a member of a statewide consortium, Community College League of California, that has helped keep electricity at a discounted price.

Palomar receives a 5.5 percent discount off what it would be paying without the league.

Although Palomar receives discounted rates, the college tries to conserve natural gas and electricity wherever possible.

The league works in conjunction with Jenkins, Larsen & Associates, a consulting firm.

Together, they help the 35 participating community college school districts in California save money on their utility bills. Among other things, their services include an electricity-purchasing consortium, negotiating power contracts for individual districts, and auditing utility bills for cost savings on rates and taxes.

Another pending issue for Palomar, and other community colleges in California is the rising prices of natural gas.

"Our natural gas prices have risen considerably, and we do not have contracts with third parties that save us any money on natural gas," said Mike Ellis, director of facilities at Palomar College. In November 2000, Palomar was paying about 50 cents per therm, and is now paying about $1.40 per therm.

"We also have concerns with rising costs of natural gas," Don Skelton, director of facilities for Mira Costa in Oceanside.

The league is attempting a natural gas program similar to its electricity programs. However . the league says any potential program is unlikely to resemble the electricity program.

This is because California has three sepa-

rate distribution systems for natural gas, which makes it impossible to offer standardized pricing to each district.

The league says that natural gas prices are likely to remain high for at least the next 18 months. These high prices will continue to effect the cost of electricity generation also.

The league participated in a hearing on the effect of the energy crisis on higher education, and made four requests .of the Legislature: that the Legislature ensure a predictable supply of electricity and natural gas for community colleges, ensure electricity and natural gas is delivered at reasonable and predictable rates, take no action that would endanger the ability of colleges to secure direct access, and support the governor's goal of reducing load and assisting colleges to reach self-sufficiency.

Meanwhile, Palomar continues to conserve energy. Its efforts include shutting down non-essential equipment, such as. rooms and offices when not in use. Palomar encourages people to turn off lights, and reset thermostats, heating to 68 and cooling to 75.

Officials also have shut down the lights in the far end of parking lot nine, since it's not being used at night.

Over the last 20 years, Palomar has increased the efficiency of its lighting, said Ellis. In four-bulb fixtures, workers have taken out two bulbs and added reflectors.

"Whenever we replace a piece of equipment we always go with the high efficiency piece of equipment," Ellis said.

Palomar has lowered the ceilings in most rooms down to 6, 8, and 9 feet, which means less area to condition. Occupancy detectors control almost all the heating and cooling systems in the classrooms.

"Our design criteria was seven minutes after the first person enters that room it should be to temperature. As soon as the last

person walks out, three minutes later the system shuts down," and Ellis.

Palomar is also looking at the possibility of bringing a major generator back on campus. About eight to 10 years ago, Palomar had a cogeneration plant that supplied 650 kilowatts of electricity. When it became inefficient to operate, it was sold.

The problem with bringing a generator back on campus is regulations, Ellis said. Palomar would not only have to use the electricity, but also any by-products the generation created.

When Palomar had a generator, the by-product of heat was used to warm the men and women's locker room at 20 minutes to the hour when classes let out and people were usually using the showers.

The by-products cooled the library, and provided all the hot water heating for the library. Also, the by-product of heat was used for the swimming pool at night.

In addition, regulations require that a generator be set up away from the occupied buildings, which makes it hard to use any byproducts because of the distance from the buildings.

"I think we may see some loosening on the federal regulations on the operation of power plants to deal with this because it could take four or five years just to get a permit to put a plant in," Ellis said.

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Is Title IX the answer?

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• The men's golf team shot out Saddleback, Cuyamaca and Cypress with a total of 375 at Steel Canyon April 16.

Palomar is in an undisputed second place in the league.

"As far as first place goes, I . believe we have to beat Saddleback in the next match in order to even have a chance at first," said Head Coach Bob Lusky.

The Comets' Scott Oxandaboure completed the course with two-under-par for a total of 68.

Devin Heid, ranked second in the league shot a 74.

"This win was a psychological booster. It gives us good momentum into league tournament play," Lusky said.

Baseball The Palomar baseball team beat San Diego City College 3-2, April17.

Top players' for Palomar were Kyle Floquet who had a double in the top of the seventh inning and drove in the winning run and Jesse Schmidt, who hit his third homerun within six days.

The winning pitcher- was Eric Human. He pitched the first eight innings and only gave up a pair of hits.

The Comets' record for the season is combined 27-7 and conference play 15-3.

The next home game will be April 26 against Grossmont College at 2 p.m.

State playoffs will begin Mayll-13 and May18-20.

Softball In a nonconference game against Ventura, the Comets shut out the Pirates 3-0.

The Comets played on a neutral field in Pasadena.

Comets player, Tiffany White hit tWo out of three for the win.

Michelle Martinez threw another no-hitter to add to her accomplishments. She's given up only one hit in her last three games played.

Palomar has a record of 28-6 going into the final stretch of the season.

Palomar rallied from a seesaw season to beat Grossmont College in five, April 13.

Geoff Colton had 16 kills on 32-attempts to send the Griffins home with a loss.

Steve Sodeman had 12 kills and Mike Minnich had 10 kills for the night.

Jason Kalchek played on a sprained ankle for 39 assists to help the Comets win 3-2.

"We are making a comeback by beating Grossmont. I hope we keep it up for the rest of the season," said Head Coach Hugh Gerhardt.

Title IX serves to b~I~Hce seHber iH atl11ctics Heidi Uebelher The Telescope

ontroversy about the injunction of Title IX which prohibits any educational programs and institutions that are funded or even supported by the Department of Education from discriminating on the basis of sex, is nearing its 30 year mark.

All colleges in the United States should be conforming to this federal regulation, but are they really?

There have been numerous occasions when the federal court system was called in to resolve matters pertaining to Title IX. One, for instance, was in 1991.

Brown University, Providence, RI was successfully sued for dropping its women's gymnastics and volleyball teams. The suit took over six years to complete, but the women of Brown University defeated the discrimination and were able to bring back the sports.

This raises a question to Palomar sports.

Is Palomar compliant? to be compliant, no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education programur activity receiving federal financial assistance.

The law and regulation of Title IX considers whether an institution's intercollegiate athletics program complies with the law and regulations. It also provides guidance to assist institutions in determining whether any disparties that may exist between men's and women's programs are justifiable.

Taken directly from Title IX policy interpretation, the policy interpretation is divided into three sections.

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One: The governing principle in the area is that all such assistance should be available on a substantially proportional basis to the number of male and female participants in the institution's athletic program.

Two: Pertaining to equipment and supplies; games and practice times; travel and per diem, coaching and academic tutoring; assignment and compensation of coaches and tutors; locker rooms, a practice and competitive facilities; medical and training facilities ; housing and dining facilities; publicity; recruitment; and sup-

"It is a huge political beaurocracy and we have to conform to the rules established."

-Jack Randall Palomar's Interim President

port services: Pursuant to the regulation, the governing principle is that male and female athletes should receive equivalent treatment, benefits, and opportunities.

Three: Meeting the interests and abilities of male and female students pursuant to regulation, the governing principle in this area is that the athletic interests and abilities of male and female students must be equally and effectively accommodated.

After knowing the basics of Title IX, is Palomar compliant?

Palomar Interim President Jack Randall said, "I think that these are simple questions that have simple answers to solving our" Title IX compliancy. However, it's not that easy. It is a huge polit-

ical beaurocracy and we have to conform to the rules established."

Palomar College is not compliant with Title IX. "Within the last two years we have added women's cross-country and five years ago we added water polo. As long as we are prudent, conscientious and keep showing genuine intent to add women's sports, I think we are compliant," said Athletics Director John Woods.

Basically his comment falls under an excerpt of Title IX that the regulation establish a threeyear transition period to give institutions time to comply with its equal athletic opportunity requirements.

"Our goal here at Palomar is to try to add one women's sport every three years until we are within ratio," Woods said.

The problem with adding sports is budget deficit, though.

Palomar has not received any substantial amount of money in over a decade to accommodate new athletics.

"The athletic department receives monies from Partnership For Excellence (PFE) grants. We intend to apply for more money each year, but it's been about the same every time," Woods said.

Our budgeted amount for_athletics is between $800,000 and $900,000. That includes salaries and benefits for coaches and staffing facilities," Woods said.

The problem is that if Palomar were to add more sports, it would have to take away money from the others that are in existence, or even cut a sport.

A very current example of this problem is the SDSU men's volleyball team.

Will Palomar become like SDSU? In the next issue we will look at this issue and more about Palomar's problems and accomplishments with Title IX.

ack in 1972, when Title IX was put into law, it marked the first stepping stone onto which women's athletics now thrive. Title IX gave women a place · in collegiate sports and leveled the playing field. Looking back nearly 30 years, the question now is, has Title IX gone too far?

If you answer yes, you ' re automatically billed as a gender-bias individual.

If you answer no, you ' re ProWomen and politically correct.

I fully support women's athletics and see a proper place for them in today's universities.

But I also see Title IX as a rallying point for reverse gender~bias, i.e. up with women, down with men.

Title IX ensures that there is no gender discrimination in collegiate sports. But that's not always the case. In a term paper posted on the Internet (wwwfac.cord. edu/pe/41000/0000001 c .htrn, that supports reverse gender-bias), Chad Sauvageau wrote, "The federal government and the NCAA must count football into it proportionality when having colleges comply with Title IX. "One easy way to cut down on the uneven proportionality among men and women athletes is to reduce the number of football scholarships. By cutting D-1 football scholarships from 85 to 50, this alone would be enough savings to fund a couple of women's sports. Instead of 85 players getting full rides these 85 could split 50. By adding these women's teams with the cut in football scholarships would make many colleges comply with Title IX." To simply sum up Sauvageau's point...college football, which is the main revenue force for nearly every university across our nation, should eliminate 35 scholarships because these scholarships could go to better use.

I think Sauvageau has the wrong idea in this area. College football is a billion dollar sport and business. To simply cut scholarships like that, in the need for equality, is just plain dumb.

Why would women want to bite the hand that feeds them? Is the quest for equal opportunity so great that 35 male athletes shouldn't have a chance to make a living as well?

An argument like this shows some of the faults Title IX has.

Some of their staunchest supporters are so jaded when it comes to equality, that their view · is the only one.

But an effort in the recent presidential elections shows that Title IX needs some modification. A quote from President Bush's election website, through www.libertocracy.com, reads that our president, "opposes quotas and racial preferences."

My hope is that President Bush and other politicians are able to rectify the faults of Title IX before the ramifications purposed by its supporters have a deadly effect on the rest of collegiate athletics.

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Beerman is a staff writer and can be reached at telescope@palomar.edu